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Today, Gwen Graham’s campaign released a new TV ad entitled “Succeed,” highlighting how Graham “will bring the North Florida Way back to Congress in order to get Washington focused on priorities that will help North Floridians succeed – like job growth, economic development, education and protecting vital programs that our seniors have earned.,” reads a release “I know neither Republicans nor Democrats are right 99 percent of the time. We need to be working together and developing the right policies – policies…

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If anything, going negative in a campaign, especially in Lakeland’s House District 40 GOP primary, proves one thing: sympathy can be an excellent way to open wallets. Attack ads –  produced by outside groups — have recently come from all sides in the contest between Republicans John Shannon and Colleen Burton. And they certainly appear to have an effect, whether intended or otherwise, on fundraising numbers. Both candidates enjoyed an outpouring of support after the ads hit the local airwaves. The result is solid numbers,…

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A big-money battle for House District 74 between Richard DeNapoli and Julio Gonzalez will definitely get a little bigger before both square off in the Aug. 26 GOP primary. DeNapoli and Gonzalez — each vying for the title of “biggest conservative” – is armed to the teeth with large media buys and even bigger war chests. Fundraising for the two first-time candidates — including loans and in-kind contributions — have now reached $570K as of the first week of August.…

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With only eight days to go until the primaries for the open seat in House District 67, Chris Latvala breaks $200,000 in fundraising. At the same time, other prospective HD 67 candidates appear to be fading fast, according to the Florida Division of Elections. Son of state Sen. Jack Latvala, the Largo Republican raised another $8,250 during Aug. 1-8 to reach an impressive $202,015 in his inaugural effort to succeed term-limited GOP state Rep. Ed Hooper for the northeast Pinellas County seat.…

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The race to replace Susan Latvala on the Pinellas County Commission is a wide-open affair with seven Republicans vying to win her District 4 seat. Recent polling indicates the race will go down to the wire, so it’s difficult to predict who will win. But if you ask state Senator Jack Latvala, the de facto boss of north Pinellas politics, who he does not want to see succeed his ex-wife, the answer is clear: Peter Nehr. In an open letter…

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C’mon, Representative Hooper, did you really need to send this mailer against Norm Roche? You’re going to win, probably easily. Roche has been a Dead Commissioner Walking since he voted to take the fluoride out of the public drinking water. That vote already took out Nancy Bostock and Neil Brickfield and they’re by several factors more popular than Roche. Yet, for whatever reason, you decided to send a mailer linking Roche with Charlie Crist, the former Republican turned Democrat who…

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Most, but not all, of the public polling about Greenlight Pinellas — the plan that would increase the county’s sales tax from 7 to 8 cents on the dollar to pay for expanded bus service and a 24-mile light rail system between St. Petersburg and Clearwater — shows that the initiative will be passed by voters this November. Moreover, an internal poll shows 59 percent of voters say they will be voting yes in favor of the referendum, while 35 percent…

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